Ketobiography

📣 Amanda Decker spent the first decade of her nursing career watching patients leave with prescriptions instead of answers — and she was one of those patients, managing psoriasis and weight struggles since age five. It took accidentally stumbling onto low-carb eating, then going fully carnivore, to resolve what decades of steroid creams and treatments had not, and to completely reimagine how she practiced medicine.

📋 Robyn talks with Amanda Decker, nurse practitioner, founder of Clear Path Medical, and organizer of the annual Low-Carb for Better Health conference in Tennessee. Amanda walks through her childhood with psoriasis and weight struggles during the low-fat era, her frustration after a decade of conventional primary care where nobody was getting better, her accidental discovery of low-carb through her great-grandmother's wisdom, and her decision to go carnivore during the pandemic to get off immunosuppressant medication — which finally cleared psoriasis that had covered 80–85% of her body for years. She also talks about founding a direct primary care model, raising healthier kids inside a food system designed to work against them, and building community through cooking classes, free Q&As, and an annual conference that feels more like a retreat than a seminar.

🔑 What You'll Learn

• How Amanda accidentally discovered low-carb through her great-grandmother's advice — and how it finally broke the lifelong cycle of weight gain, restricting, and binging
• Why 90 days of carnivore cleared psoriasis that had covered 80–85% of her body after years of steroid creams, tar shampoos, and immunosuppressants
• Why diet alone doesn't fix everything — and how Amanda combines nutritional therapy with conventional medicine when genetics require it
• How Clear Path Medical's direct primary care model gives patients 30–60 minute appointments, direct messaging, and real support at a fraction of the overhead
• Practical strategies for raising healthier kids: letting them choose low-carb recipes, using natural ingredient swaps, and controlling what you can at home

💡 Key Insight

"Practice, not perfection. You're not going to get it right every day, all day. But you keep going — getting off track for one meal is not a huge deal, it's just don't let it keep getting off track. Progress, not perfection. And when in doubt, just eat meat." — Amanda Decker

🌐 Connect with Amanda Decker

Clear Path Medical: https://www.clearpathmedical.net/

Conference: https://lc4bh.com

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/deckerlesscarbs

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/deckerlesscarbs

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Amanda is licensed to practice in Tennessee and 23 states via telehealth.

⚕️ This podcast is for informational and educational purposes only and is not medical advice; always consult a qualified healthcare professional about your own health decisions.

⏳ Chapters

0:47 Introduction and Meet Amanda Decker

3:11 Childhood: Weight, Psoriasis, and the Low-Fat Era

9:47 Stumbling Into Low-Carb and Personal Healing

12:48 The Carnivore Shift and Psoriasis Recovery

14:49 Limits of Diet: Genetics, Realism, and a New Philosophy

16:29 Founding Clear Path Medical: A New Model of Care

19:30 The Low-Carb for Better Health Conference

25:52 Family Transformation and Raising Healthier Kids

33:55 Community Outreach: Cooking Classes and Open Q&As

51:34 Key Insight: Practice, Not Perfection

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📣 A mother and daughter reverse a six-year mental health crisis by changing what they eat. This is the story of how a ketogenic diet took Genevieve off psychiatric medication — and gave Kristina her life back.

📋 In this extraordinary episode, we're joined by Kristina and Genevieve Cook, a mother-daughter duo who overcame six years of psychiatric crisis, chronic pain, and severe behavioral challenges, all through the power of a therapeutic ketogenic diet. Genevieve was just nine when she entered an inpatient psychiatric program for treatment-resistant bipolar disorder. After years of medications and mounting mental health struggles, everything changed when her family discovered the impact of food on the brain. Within one week of switching to a whole foods ketogenic diet, she began sleeping, stabilizing, and reclaiming her life. Kristina, battling her depression and PTSD, also experienced a total transformation, leading her to become a passionate advocate for metabolic psychiatry and family-based healing. This episode is a powerful reminder that food can fuel recovery, rewire the brain, and return hope to the most hopeless cases.

🔑 What You'll Learn in This Episode

• How Kristina reversed PTSD, chronic pain, and mood issues through keto
• How Genevieve went from a psychiatric inpatient to medication-free in weeks, and why a ketogenic diet can transform childhood mental health
• The role of food, metabolic health, and inflammation in psychiatric disorders
• How to educate your kids and shift the entire family dynamic
• Real stories of hope, healing, and grassroots mental health advocacy

💡 Key Insight

"Six years of suffering became six weeks of recovery. If we can learn better, we can do better, especially for our kids." — Kristina Cook

🌐 Connect with Kristina Cook & Better Humans Project

Instagram: https://instagram.com/better.humans.project

X: https://x.com/KristinaCo9561

💚 Metabolic Collective

Website: https://www.metaboliccollective.org

X: https://x.com/metcollective

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@metaboliccollective

⚕️ This podcast is for informational and educational purposes only and is not medical advice; always consult a qualified healthcare professional about your own health decisions.

⏳ Chapters

0:47 Welcome to Ketobiography

2:17 Meet Kristina and Genevieve Cook

4:52 Kristina's History of Anxiety, Trauma, and Chronic Pain

9:32 Genevieve's Behavioral Crisis and Inpatient Treatment

14:02 The Turning Point: Bobby Kennedy, Good Energy, and Real Food

18:47 Sleep, Mood, and Physical Healing in Just One Week

23:32 Discovering Dr. Chris Palmer and Metabolic Psychiatry

27:17 From Treatment-Resistant to Medication-Free

32:27 Genevieve's Story in Her Own Words

36:02 The Power of Educating Kids About Food

40:37 Homeschooling, School Success, and Social Wins

44:57 Educating Doctors, Dropping Books in Little Libraries

48:47 Better Humans Project and Metabolic Collective

53:02 Final Message: Choose Your Hard, Take Back Your Health

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📣 Jen Mendyka spent decades using food to bury grief she didn't know she was carrying. Here's how she broke the cycle — and why 90% effort was keeping her stuck at 0% results.

📋 Welcome back to Ketobiography, where Robyn and Natalie share real stories of healing through the ketogenic lifestyle. In this episode, we reconnect with Jen Mendyka, who first appeared on Episode 3 of Less of Me Success Stories. Jen returns with powerful revelations, hard-won consistency, and emotional breakthroughs that have propelled her deeper into healing. Struggling with emotional eating since childhood, Jen recounts her path from silently suffering to thriving with clarity, strength, and hope. Learn how she embraced Vinnie Tortorich's NSNG (No Sugar, No Grains) approach, joined an accountability group, and faced lifelong grief with the help of Christine Trimpe's book, Sugar Freed, and her deepening faith.

🔑 What You'll Learn in This Episode

• How emotional eating starts, and how to finally break the cycle
• Why 90% effort can yield 0% results
• How NSNG and carnivore eating led to a 50-lb loss, and what caused the regain
• How Jen's husband reversed his blood sugar levels without insulin
• The role of faith, prayer, and letting go of childhood trauma in a sustainable keto journey

💡 Key Insight

"90% effort yields 0% results. You can't cheat the process and expect the transformation." — Jen Mendyka

🌐 Connect with Jen Mendyka

X: https://x.com/lemjen97

⚕️ This podcast is for informational and educational purposes only and is not medical advice; always consult a qualified healthcare professional about your

own health decisions.

⏳ Chapters

0:47 Welcome & Introduction

7:02 Struggles and Frustration

13:19 Knowing What to Do, But Not Sticking With It

19:10 The Challenge of Deprivation and Sugar Addiction

25:35 Personal Growth and Self-Understanding

31:50 Temptation at Work: The Student Store

38:01 Beyond Weight Loss: Broader Benefits of Keto

43:58 Faith and Support in the Journey

49:54 Managing Stress and Letting Go of Control

56:10 Strictness, Slippery Slopes, and Family Events

1:02:07 The 90/10 Rule: Full Commitment Needed

1:08:29 Unexpected Benefits and Final Reflections

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📣 Janet Ebos watched her son cycle through severe bipolar episodes for years — then a continuous glucose monitor showed her exactly what his brain was fighting, and a ketogenic diet started fighting back.

📋 Janet Ebos is a holistic nutritionist, musician, teacher, and mother who spent years searching for answers after her son's bipolar diagnosis and repeated psychiatric crises. Along the way, she resolved her own decades-long migraines, canker sores, and brain fog by cutting out sugar and gluten, then discovered the deeper role a ketogenic diet could play in brain health after hearing researchers connect it to bipolar remission. She trained under Dr. Georgia Ede, became a registered holistic nutritionist, and now works with clients who are, in her words, at rock bottom — walking them through metabolic therapy one meal at a time. Janet also serves as community coordinator for the grassroots nonprofit Metabolic Collective, which she and Robyn discuss in depth: its mission to connect patients, caregivers, and clinicians, and its work building awareness of metabolic therapies for psychiatric and neurological conditions.

🔑 What You'll Learn in This Episode

• How Janet discovered a ketogenic diet could put bipolar disorder into remission, and the years of ups and downs supporting her son through it
• What a continuous glucose monitor revealed about her son's blood sugar, and how that data changed his approach to his own health
• How Janet resolved her own migraines, canker sores, and brain fog by cutting out sugar and gluten
• How the Metabolic Collective is building a patient-led, grassroots movement around metabolic psychiatry and neurology
• Janet's approach to starting new clients slowly, one meal at a time, without overwhelming them

💡 Key Insight

"Your hope is contagious. I just want people to know what's possible." — Janet Ebos

🌐 Connect with Janet Ebos

Website: https://purelyjanet.ca

Email: [email protected]

X: https://x.com/JanetENutrition

💚 Metabolic Collective

Website: https://www.metaboliccollective.org

X: https://x.com/metcollective

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@metaboliccollective

⚕️ This podcast is for informational and educational purposes only and is not medical advice; always consult a qualified healthcare professional about your own health decisions.

⏳ Chapters

0:47 Welcome to Ketobiography

2:39 Meet Janet Ebos: Holistic Nutritionist & Advocate

6:32 A Mother's Mission: Bipolar, Depression & a Search for Answers

12:20 The Ketogenic Connection: From Brain Fog to Clarity

20:31 Continuous Glucose Monitors & Data That Changes Lives

27:47 Supporting Others at Rock Bottom

35:05 The Power of Hope in Nutritional Psychiatry

42:12 Brain Health, Alzheimer's, and Family Healing

47:52 Inside the Metabolic Collective: A Grassroots Revolution

58:49 Practical Support: How Janet Starts with Clients

1:09:31 Travel, Flexibility, and Healing Beyond Dogma

1:17:42 Strategies from Metabolic Mind & The Think Smart Framework

1:23:01 Where to Find Janet + Volunteer with the Collective

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📣 Tim Mallien traded a sugar addiction for an obsession with the scale — then found freedom from both, and lost 94 pounds along the way.

📋 Tim Mallien first shared his story on Less of Me Success Stories, but a year later he found himself quietly backsliding, gaining back nearly all the weight he'd lost without fully admitting it to himself. After hitting a second rock bottom at 361 pounds, Tim and his wife recommitted to NSNG and a mostly carnivore way of eating, and the weight started coming off for good. Now down 94 pounds, he opens up about breaking his silence around struggle, letting go of his toxic relationship with both sugar and the scale, and how getting healthy is clearing the path for a second hip replacement, this time on his terms.

🔑 What You'll Learn in This Episode

• How Tim regained nearly all his lost weight through stress eating and quiet denial, and what finally broke the cycle
• Why he traded a sugar addiction for a scale obsession, and how he found freedom from both
• How NSNG and a mostly carnivore approach helped him lose 94 pounds
• Why speaking up about struggle, instead of staying silent, made all the difference
• How losing weight is preparing him for an easier hip replacement recovery

💡 Key Insight

"I was a slave to sugar. Now I'm free of both." — Tim Mallien

🌐 Connect with Tim Mallien

X: https://x.com/Fleeing400

⚕️ This podcast is for informational and educational purposes only and is not medical advice; always consult a qualified healthcare professional about your own health decisions.

⏳ Chapters

0:47 Welcome Back, Tim Mallien

2:48 Recap: Last Year's Struggles and Turning Points

5:32 Rock Bottom, Again: The Wake-Up Call at 361lbs

8:37 A 94-lb Loss and New Milestones

11:09 Letting Go of Toxic Habits: Sugar & the Scale

14:17 Accountability and Speaking Up When You're Struggling

18:29 The Day the Shirts Didn't Fit: Warning Signs

21:12 "Whose Pants Are These?" – Rediscovering Size 34

24:37 Student Support & Talking Keto in the Classroom

27:47 Why NSNG and Carnivore Worked This Time

30:52 Daily Discipline: Tricks, Tactics & Goal Adjustments

34:47 Legacy and Motivation: Changing for His Son

37:27 Why Quiet Often Means Someone's Struggling

40:47 Final Thoughts and Words of Encouragement

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📣 Denitra Davis spent decades chasing every "healthy" diet trend, going vegetarian, then vegan, while quietly getting sicker. She didn't get better until she learned the truth: plant-based still means sugar-based.

📋 Denitra Davis is a coach, educator, and advocate whose health journey started in childhood, when sugar was woven into every celebration, and even helped trigger an early epilepsy diagnosis. As an adult, she developed plantar fasciitis, gout, pre-diabetes, and eventually lupus, chasing "heart-healthy" advice, vegetarian and vegan diets that only made her sicker and heavier. It wasn't until she discovered low-carb and eventually a mostly-carnivore way of eating that her labs, her skin, and her energy turned around. Now a certified metabolic health and nutrition network practitioner, Denitra coaches clients through what she calls ACE: advocating, coaching, and educating, teaching people to read nutrition labels, understand their labs, and stop treating chronic illness as inevitable.

🔑 What You'll Learn in This Episode

• How childhood sugar habits and a misunderstood epilepsy diagnosis shaped Denitra's relationship with food
• Why going vegetarian and vegan made her lupus, gout, and pre-diabetes worse, not better
• Why "pre-diabetes" doesn't mean you're safe, and what insulin resistance actually means
• How Denitra coaches clients using ingredient swaps instead of full diet overhauls
• Why knowing your own labs, not just trusting a diagnosis, is the first step to reversing chronic illness

💡 Key Insight

"Don't let the 'pre' fool you. Pre-diabetes is already dysfunction." — Denitra Davis

🌐 Connect with Denitra Davis

Website: https://nutritionalknowledge.com

Instagram: https://instagram.com/advocatorcoacheducator

⚕️ This podcast is for informational and educational purposes only and is not medical advice; always consult a qualified healthcare professional about your own health decisions.

⏳ Chapters

0:47 Welcome to Ketobiography

3:17 Meet Denitra Davis: Coach, Educator, Advocate

6:32 Sugar Started in Childhood: Epilepsy & Grape Drink

11:02 Celebration Foods Became Everyday Triggers

16:47 Misdiagnosed & Misguided: From Gout to Lupus

24:32 Plant-Based Made Me Worse

30:57 Debunking Pre-Diabetes & Doctor Misinformation

36:07 Healing with Keto, Then Carnivore

42:17 Educating Strangers in the Grocery Aisle

48:02 Coaching Philosophy: ACE (Advocator, Coach, Educator)

53:57 Why Labs Matter: From Fasting Insulin to CAC

57:27 Building Community Through Events & Speaking

1:03:47 Carnivore Fueled Yoga & Real Energy Gains

1:08:32 Where to Find a Keto-Literate Doctor

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📣 A personal trainer spent years measuring people's metabolisms and watching calorie-restricted diets tank them. Then one employee lost 3 pounds in 3 days on keto, and Casey Ruff never looked back.

📋 Casey Ruff has spent 18 years as a personal trainer, and much of that time running metabolic testing on clients, measuring resting metabolic rate and fuel-source burn through breath analysis. That work showed him again and again how calorie-restricted diets tank metabolism, and how teaching the body to burn fat instead of carbohydrate could transform endurance and energy. After watching a client lose weight fast on a keto-style diet in 2018, Casey and his wife Bethany quietly abandoned their gym's official weight-loss program and built their own keto-based coaching approach instead, then found their way to carnivore in 2019. Now running Boundless Body together, Casey coaches nutrition while Bethany treats pain and injury through Rossiter bodywork, and Casey breaks down why "healthy" foods like spinach and almonds can be loaded with oxalates that quietly damage joints and gut lining.

🔑 What You'll Learn in This Episode

• Why calorie-restricted dieting can cut resting metabolic rate roughly in half, and how metabolic testing reveals it
• How training the body to burn fat instead of carbohydrate transformed Casey's endurance as a cyclist
• Why "eat less, move more" and rigid company weight-loss programs failed almost all their clients, and what worked instead
• What oxalates are, why they build up in the body, and which "healthy" foods (spinach, almonds, beets) carry the most
• Why Casey considers his own mental health, not weight loss, the biggest benefit of staying carnivore

💡 Key Insight

"Ketosis isn't a trend, it's your human birthright." — Casey Ruff

🌐 Connect with Casey Ruff

Website: https://www.myboundlessbody.com

Podcast: Boundless Body Radio

⚕️ This podcast is for informational and educational purposes only and is not medical advice; always consult a qualified healthcare professional about your own health decisions.

⏳ Chapters

0:47 Welcome to Keto Biography

1:52 Meet Casey Ruff: From Trainer to Podcaster

6:27 Metabolic Testing and the Calorie Myth

13:57 Why "Eat Less, Move More" Fails

17:32 Discovering Fat for Fuel and Endurance

23:07 Getting Curious About Keto

30:02 Launching Boundless Body

35:27 Keto Coaching, Real Food, and Breaking the Rules

40:37 Going Carnivore: First Impressions & Mental Health Wins

49:17 Oxalates, Spinach, and Plant Toxins Explained

57:02 What Is Carnivore, Really? (And What It Isn't)

1:04:17 Injury Recovery and Bethany's Rossiter Bodywork

1:12:32 Business Building, Podcasting, and Purpose

1:21:37 Reflections on Cholesterol Code Film

🎧 New episodes drop every Thursday on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major platforms.

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🎬 Robyn is featured in The Cholesterol Code – Watch it on YouTube or Amazon.

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📣 Kelly McLean lost 110 pounds with gastric sleeve surgery, then slowly gained 50 back. The surgery had shrunk her stomach, but it never touched her sugar addiction.

📋 Kelly McLean had her gastric sleeve surgery in 2014 and lost 110 pounds in the first year. But her post-surgery diet still included grains and chemical sweeteners, and without addressing her underlying food addiction, the weight crept back. In 2023, after hearing Vinnie Tortorich's NSNG (No Sugar, No Grains) approach for the second time, something finally clicked. Kelly has since lost over 60 pounds, come off blood pressure medication, and evolved her eating from strict NSNG toward a mostly carnivore lifestyle. She also shares how eating this way helped her recover from a hip replacement and a knee replacement, and the slow, ongoing work of encouraging her husband and son toward the same changes.

🔑 What You'll Learn in This Episode

• Why her bariatric "proper eating" diet, still full of grains and sweeteners, never broke her sugar addiction
• The difference between gastric sleeve and gastric bypass surgery, and why she chose the sleeve
• How discovering NSNG in 2023 helped her lose over 60 pounds and come off blood pressure medication for good
• Why she evolved from strict NSNG toward a mostly carnivore way of eating, and how that simplified her cooking
• How eating nutrient-dense, low-inflammation meals helped her recover faster from hip and knee replacement surgeries

💡 Key Insight

"You have to find your why. Until you do it for yourself, lasting change won't come." — Kelly McLean

🌐 Connect with Kelly McLean

Facebook: https://facebook.com/KellyRainesMcLean

Community Page: KM Nutrition and Wellness (Facebook)

⚕️ This podcast is for informational and educational purposes only and is not medical advice; always consult a qualified healthcare professional about your own health decisions.

⏳ Chapters

0:47 Welcome to Keto Biography

1:57 Meet Kelly McLean: A Journey of Second Chances

4:52 Gastric Sleeve Surgery: Why She Chose It Over Bypass

8:32 The Return of Weight Gain and Food Addiction

12:07 Discovering NSNG: No Sugar, No Grains

16:17 60 Pounds Down and Off Medication

19:47 What Kelly Eats Now and How It Supports Healing

24:02 Preparing for Surgery Recovery with Real Food

27:47 Supporting Family Health and Breaking Cycles

31:27 Kelly's Message for Anyone Struggling

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📣 Emily Penton was a licensed therapist when she was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. Three weeks into an all-meat diet, she was hospitalized again, this time with multiple sclerosis. She hasn't had a symptom of either since 2019.

📋 Emily Penton was in graduate school for clinical counseling when she was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. At her worst, she was on 900mg of lithium, 80mg of Prozac, and 80mg of Adderall daily just to function, and her illness eventually progressed into rapid cycling that made it impossible to keep working. In February 2019, she started an all-meat, no-plant way of eating, and had her last bipolar episode two months later. Three weeks into the diet, she was hospitalized for a different reason: her throat had stopped swallowing, and doctors discovered lesions on her brain from multiple sclerosis. She kept eating the same way. Her last MS symptom was in May 2019, and follow-up scans have shown her lesions shrinking rather than progressing. Now a coach rather than a licensed therapist, Emily walks clients through a 45-day food experiment using a simple green-yellow-red system, and shares why treating mental illness as a "superpower" rather than a life sentence has changed how she works with people at their lowest points.

🔑 What You'll Learn in This Episode

• How Emily's bipolar disorder progressed to rapid cycling and made it impossible to keep working as a therapist
• Why she started an all-meat diet in 2019, and how her last bipolar episode came two months later
• How a multiple sclerosis diagnosis, discovered three weeks into the diet, resolved without medication by May 2019
• How her simple green-yellow-red food system works, and why she lets clients build their own food list instead of prescribing one
• Why reintroducing a single food, like honey or a sweet potato, can bring psychiatric symptoms back even years into recovery

💡 Key Insight

"You're not broken. You're brilliant." — Emily Penton

🌐 Connect with Emily Penton

Website: https://emilypenton.com

Instagram: https://instagram.com/emilypenton

YouTube: Emily Penton

⚕️ This podcast is for informational and educational purposes only and is not medical advice; always consult a qualified healthcare professional about your own health decisions.

⏳ Chapters

0:47 Welcome to Keto Biography

1:47 Meet Emily Penton: Therapist Turned Carnivore Coach

4:37 A Descent into Psychosis and Medication Overload

8:07 Diagnosed with MS: The Breaking Point

11:32 Discovering Carnivore and Starting Gut Healing

15:17 Ending Psychiatric and MS Symptoms with Food

19:02 Leaving Therapy to Help Others as a Coach

23:27 The Green-Yellow-Red Food System Explained

26:47 Radical Ownership and Building Community

31:07 Emily's Advice for Mental and Physical Healing

34:57 Final Reflections: You're Not Broken, You're Brilliant

🎧 New episodes drop every Thursday on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major platforms.

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📣 Christine Trimpe made it half a mile up a hiking trail before her body said no. Sitting on a stump while her husband kept walking, she prayed one simple line: "God, I just want to feel better." Ten years later, she's lost over 100 pounds and hasn't looked back.

📋 Christine Trimpe spent 30 years yo-yo dieting while working as a corporate accountant, carrying 100 pounds of excess weight along with chronic fatigue, migraines, cystic acne, and a painful ovarian cyst that led to a fatty liver disease diagnosis. A failed hike at Rocky Mountain National Park in 2015 became her breaking point. She started with a sleep study, then quit sugar, then discovered Dr. Jason Fung's work on fasting and insulin, which led her to a ketogenic, low-carb way of eating. She's kept the weight off for a decade, now works as a licensed sugar addiction practitioner, and coaches women through the same method she used to reclaim her health, detailed in her book Sugar Freed.

🔑 What You'll Learn in This Episode

• How a failed half-mile hike at Rocky Mountain National Park became the turning point in Christine's health journey
• Why quitting sugar alone only got her 18 pounds down in 10 months, and what changed after she cut bread, pasta, and potatoes
• How fatty liver disease, migraines, and cystic acne all resolved once she addressed her sugar addiction
• Why she trained as a licensed sugar addiction practitioner, and what she's learned about why 97% of her coaching clients have some level of sugar addiction
• How her book Sugar Freed and her HEART framework (Handle emotions, Examine thoughts, Ask for motivation, Run with courage, Take action) help women build lasting change

💡 Key Insight

"Hope for freedom, because I was hopeless for those 30 years." — Christine Trimpe

🌐 Connect with Christine Trimpe

Website: https://christinetrimpe.com

Instagram: https://instagram.com/christinetrimpe

Facebook: Christine Trimpe

⚕️ This podcast is for informational and educational purposes only and is not medical advice; always consult a qualified healthcare professional about your own health decisions.

⏳ Chapters

0:47 Welcome to Ketobiography

1:52 Christine's Life Before Keto: Fatigue, Pain, and Inflammation

5:07 The Mountain Moment: A Simple Prayer That Changed Everything

8:22 How the Ketogenic Diet Changed Her Health Markers

11:57 Breaking Free from Sugar Addiction

16:32 Navigating the Emotional & Spiritual Side of Weight Loss

21:17 Coaching Women Through the Sugar Freed Method

25:57 From Accountant to Author: Following the Calling

29:47 Final Reflections and Message of Hope

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